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Flowers For Ambrosia

by Autumn Electric

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Going downhill too fast, colors blur into the sound of the engine, oh you know it's all I am if I should fall, I will fly until gravity surely pulls me home The glory of the summer heat, as it soaks into the white concrete I'm rising too fast, will my heart burst like a little bird oh the treasure is up in the cherry tree if you should fall, from the branch too soon you'll know the good and the evil too The glory of the summer heat, as it soaks into the white concrete Don't grow too fast, you'll only wage a war with the days All I want for you is something to call your own Indian summer, and the square streets of suburbs
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Skeletons of houses, skeletons of homes all their vacant eyes won't leave me alone Roll up the windows lock the doors you're so paranoid I can't take anymore Should I be afraid of the kids in the street Should I just look down at my feet? All the blue flowers, grow in the cracks of the rocks All the blue flowers, grow in your heart when you talk I'm going to keep it alive A guy at the show said let's make something grow there's a lot of young minds that can't be confined by this deadwood Reclaim the neighborhood, reclaim the ground pumping Eden's blood back into Motown This special garden will succeed and they say take what you need All the blue flowers, grow in the cracks of the rocks All the blue flowers, grow in your heart when you talk Andy, you keep it alive Hey all you sad looking people, I can see it again Reclaim, oh you've bought back your city with your pain and today is your day
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I have a memory, a different time a different me when my home was the sea in a circle you found me and when the tide is high under the moon tonight, I'll be Riding the Rogo, feeling the undertow Lost in the rumble, bye to the ice and the snow I have a photograph of the future I'm leaving tonight, I'm sailing for San Francisco The king of comedy, once did he captain thee when he fled the pyramids in the mid seventies and when the tide is high under the moon tonight, I'll be Riding the Rogo, feeling the undertow Lost in the rumble, bye to the ice and the snow I have a photograph of the future I'm leaving tonight, I'm sailing for San Francisco Be careful captain out on the open sea Captain oh captain there is a mutiny! The day that I found you, barely a skeleton remnant of an age, your treasure all jettisoned I think of the old man, I try to be better than Sometimes the old man is me. You drive me awake, and you drive me into the sea Make me a wave in the song of your elegy I've tried so many times, but I could never see The old man, only the sea Riding the Rogo, feeling the undertow Lost in the rumble, bye to the ice and the snow I have a photograph of the future I'm leaving tonight, I'm sailing for San Francisco
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What can you give to the man of the forest Who says he has all he needs? Nowhere to go, no one to see All he really wants is to be unseen. What are the wages of solitude How much does is cost to steal The things that we do to survive is it true that some people cannot feel? The things that you took oh you feel so ashamed, Anything to insulate. Living all winter long, out in the woods of Maine. How did you live? Why did you leave? You can hear them talk on the radio and still you can speak quite well Twenty-seven years living out in the forest and your own face you cannot tell The way that you looked back in '86 Oh it's getting harder to see The only cure, the cure is to be seen and from your crimes come clean The things that you took oh you feel so ashamed, Anything to insulate. Living all winter long, out in the woods of Maine. How did you live? Why did you leave? They said that you lost heart, anything to insulate They say the heart is in the home What can you give to the man of the forest Who says he has all he needs? Nowhere to go, no one to see All he really wants is to be unseen.
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Doing what comes easy Sounds so perfect in your mind But no one can know the dangers of an ordinary life it's hard to find hard to find paradise
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It's 1985, you're hooked on Magnum PI You took us all to Hawaii, to forget all of our troubles The way that Magnum tried, living in paradise He missed his dad and his mom hung with his buddies from Viet Nam Teach me how to hurt, when to smile that it's alright to take my time How to drive in a high-speed chase With resolve written on my face It's hard to find an upstanding guy like Magnum PI When we got back from Hawaii, I tried to keep it inside me Coconuts by the fireplace, drinking tropical concentrate Dad you bought a red car, took it out for long drives I thought maybe you were hurting or just adventure deprived Teach me how to hurt, when to smile that it's alright to take my time How to drive in a high-speed chase With resolve written on my face It's hard to find an upstanding guy like Magnum PI I wouldn't be surprised, Dad If you were solving crimes out on the side driving your RX painted cherry red wearing your aviators
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You told me you heard, a symphonic record and there were Angels on the sleeve You told me you cried and the words of Isiah rang out inside your sleeping heart Wake Up! Now it's 4 a.m., and you've gone to visit your friend The morning DJ was surprised He said where have you been with that crown of pigeon feathers? You said I've been set free, but he knew something was wrong he said please... Do what is good for you, what is good for you, may not be good for everyone Do what is good for you, good for your wife and your son I got you a job, out past issaquah You climbed the ladder, paintbrush in hand The lady got scared, said you look awful shaky up there you said, If I fall the Angels will catch me! She said, I don't believe in angels and I think it's time for you to go now so that's what he did. Now Joe the Lion sleeps tonight. Your ten year old son is sitting at home with his football and if he bites you it's because he is like you Joe says please... Do what is good for you, what is good for you, may not be good for everyone Do what is good for you, good for you You are my very loved son
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Orange Stars 22:23
Orange Stars pt 1. The Moonchild Everything going to be alright Don't let the alarm clock make you feel bad If the early morn has got you forlorn I understand. Balthazar Bux is late for class Another test, homework's forgotten and the bullies at school, they think you're uncool and they chase you. Robinson Crusoe, on his island alone You tell me I'm safe, put down the book when I want Mr. Coriander, do you think that I may never return? There's a girl inside the book She said she knows me As if people didn't already think I'm crazy? Now, I've seen the Moonchild... Mr. Coriander have you ridden the dragon through the clouds, over the buildings of your hometown? The further I go, the less that I know about the real world. Now all the memories in my head, are all movies with no sound and all my solid ground just crumbles to nothing. Mr. Coriander, do you think that I may never return? There's a girl inside the book She said she knows me As if people didn't already think I'm crazy? Now, I've seen the Moonchild... pt 2 A Knock at the Door I've let you down, I haven't been around There's things that I don't want to say but I will say them now. So let's float on the river, the water is so cold and will you forgive me, right here on the shore? The truth will electrify you I'll be your flashlight, the dove in your hand I'll hold your hand 'til you get there and I'll understand you. This crude body is all that I have to show you that I care Someday I'll up and fly out of my mind into you, where you are. Pt 3. I Always Hear Them Buzzing Under the rafters, There's an imaginary song you've been after I'll sit and listen all afternoon Where have the bees gone? I used to hear them buzzing outside and inside your electric amplifier Can you hear them buzzing? I always hear them buzzing. Pt 4 Snow Spectrum All night long, the heater comes and the heater goes Humming like a song, my body knows where it belongs I can see my friend, the candle burns legs and a bicycle Headlights on the snow, white as a crow is black and silver. The numb, can't last forever The pain of thawing out feels like pleasure Being born, again Springtime has returned to the mountains Pt 5. It's Raining From the Trees I'm the one who wants to love you Every day, and be part of you You're the blood inside my veins The reason for my name now who is left to blame? Orange leaves, oh they fall Just like orange stars remind us our lives are passing us by and the dream that we had hasn't died It's living inside a hideaway sigh They were with you there in your room With you in your toys with you every morning where the summer apples shine in the corner of your mind I was living in your breast all this time to the secrets, and feelings I was blind but now they're mine

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released January 10, 2014

Chris Barrios - drums, percussion, vocals
Naomi Adele Smith - synthesizers, melodica, vocals
Max Steiner - lead guitar, vocals
Michael Trew - electric and acoustic guitar, lead vocal, flute, banjo, synth flutes, spoken word
Johnny Unicorn - bass, alto saxophone, vocals

with guest Joe Stormer: Accordion on "Joe The Lion, Sleeps Tonight",
backing vocals on "The Hermit of North Pond"

Songs written by Michael Trew with exception of "The Hermit of North
Pond" written by Chris Barrios and Michael Trew
Music by Autumn Electric
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Chris Barrios
Produced by Autumn Electric
Cover Art by Louise Trew
Inside Art by Naomi Smith
Layout: Johnny Unicorn

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Michael Trew: Lead Vocals, Flute, Guitar

Naomi Smith: Keyboards, Vocals

Max Steiner: Lead Guitar

Chris Barrios: Drums

Johnny Unicorn: Bass, Vocals
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